Meme DA (sorry Matthew, just use terror da blocks for

answers, and just extend stuff and elaborate if they

question the memes.)
ISIS WMD threat rising they have the money and
resources
Smith 5/25
(Samuel Smith is a reporter for CP, May 26th 2015, ISIS Claims to Be
'Infinitely' Closer to Buying Nuclear Weapon From Pakistan and Smuggling It
Into the US, CPWORLD, http://www.christianpost.com/news/isis-claims-to-beinfinitely-closer-to-buying-nuclear-weapon-from-pakistan-and-smuggling-itinto-the-us-139585/, TMP)
The Islamic State terrorist organization proclaims it's now "infinitely"
closer to buying a nuclear weapon and sneaking it inside the United
States than it has ever been, a "far-fetched" claim that's designed only to spark fear of deadly
chaos on American soil. In the latest issue of ISIS' monthly English propaganda magazine, Dabiq, an
article believed to have been written by captured British photojournalist John Cantlie states that it would be
much easier than people realize for ISIS to acquire a nuclear weapon
and smuggle it through South and Central Americas and up to the
U.S.'s southern border. The article, which is titled "The Perfect Storm," presents the idea that ISIS could
purchase nuclear weapons from corrupt Pakistani officials, by way of
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The Islamic State has billions of dollars in the bank, so

they call on their wilayah [province] in Pakistan to purchase a nuclear
device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the
region. The weapon is then transported overland until it makes it to
Libya, where the mujahidin move it south to Nigeria." The article continues by
reasoning that since drug shipments from Colombia pass through West Africa,
it would make smuggling "other types of contraband from East to
West just as possible." "The nuke and accompanying mujahidin
[militants] arrive on the shorelines of South America and are
transported through the porous borders of Central America before
arriving in Mexico and up to the border with the United States," the article
Dabiq article as stating. "

explains. "From there it's a quick hop through a smuggling tunnel and hey presto, they're mingling with another 12 million 'illegal' aliens in

The article readily admits that the scenario that

was presented is a bit of an exaggeration, but still argues that given
ISIS' growth in the last year and expected growth for the coming
future, there's no limit on what ISIS' capabilities will be a year from
now.. "Perhaps such a scenario is far-fetched but it's the sum of all fears for western
intelligence agencies and it's infinitely more possible today than it
was just one year ago," the article states. "And if not a nuke, what about a few
thousand tons of ammonium nitrate explosive? That's easy enough to make." According to
America with a nuclear bomb in the trunk."

the Dabiq article also contends that any attack on America will
be of much greater scale than any of its previous malicious attacks
or murders elsewhere in the world. "They'll [ISIS] be looking to do
something big, something that would make any past operation look
like a squirrel shoot, and the more groups that pledge allegiance the
more possible it becomes to pull off something truly epic ," Cantlie allegedly
wrote. "Remember, all of this has happened in less than a year . How more dangerous will be
The Independent,

the lines of communication and supply a year on from today?"

The aff blatantly ignores memes; the only effective

method to stop ISIS.
RT 5/8 Russian Times
Russian Times, 5/8/2015, Russian Times, Meme's the word : US
lawmakers want to 'blow ISIS out of the water' with...the internet,
http://www.rt.com/usa/256717-senators-isis-recruitment-internet-memes/,
7/17/2015, \\BD
While the US is fighting ISIS intensively on the ground, some
lawmakers also want Washington to take the battle online. One even
proposed using internet memes , noting that the terrorist group has
successfully used them to further its mission. During a 'Jihad 2.0' hearing on
social media and terrorism, the Senate Homeland Securities and Government Affairs Committee
discovered that the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has managed to attract the interest of 62 people in
the US through social media. The interested online parties either tried to join IS (some successfully) or
supported others in doing so. Of the 62 people, 53 were very active on social media, downloading jihadist
propaganda. Some of them directly communicated with IS. But Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) had just the

We
invented the Internet. We invented the social network sites. Weve
got Hollywood. Weve got the capabilitiesto blow these guys out of
the water from the standpoint of communications , he said. He was
supported by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who had an unconventional
trick up his sleeve: internet memes . Look at their fancy memes
compared to what were not doing, Booker said while clutching
print-outs of ISIS memes . He said the Islamic State is busying
making slick, fancy and attractive videos, while the US is spending
millions and millions on old school forms of media . A prolific user
of Twitter, Booker said he knows something about memes . He became a
answer to the problem and it didn't involve deadly weapons or military troops. Lets face it:

viral sensation himself after rescuing his neighbor from a burning building in 2012. The heroic move
inspired his own Twitter hashtag, with social media users sharing their own (false) superhero encounters
with Booker. One user tweeted that when he needed a kidney, Booker instantly ripped out his own,

The hearing, titled 'Jihad 2.0: Social Media in the

Next Evolution of Terrorist Recruitment,' is part of an ongoing
attempt by Congress to identify ways to thwart efforts by overseas
terrorists to lure foreign fighters or incite jihadists to commit
attacks inside the US.
handed it to me & flew away.

Literally, government meming solves

Donoughue 3/12 witer for ABC News

Paul Donoughue, 3/12/2015, ABC News, Twitter wars: How the US is fighting
Islamic State propaganda through internet memes,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-12/state-department-counterradicalisation-twitter/6290436, 7/18/2015, \\BD
The Islamic State group's widespread use of social media to recruit
fighters is well publicised, and this week prompted a Sydney Muslim
community leader to call for Australia to immediately launch a social
media campaign to halt the grooming of jihadists . But what might such a
campaign look like? The US State Department already runs three Twitter
accounts - @DOTArabic, @DSDOTAR, and @DigitalOutreach - that fire
off dozens of tweets a day in Arabic and often directly reply to
people who espouse radical views. The aim, it says, is to "counter
terrorist propaganda and misinformation about the United States
across a wide variety of interactive digital environments that had
previously been ceded to extremists". Many of the tweets poke fun
at IS beliefs and use images that resemble internet memes to target
the group's hypocrisy. Here are 12 such memes, with translations into English.

Its impossible to know if nuclear terror would escalate,

best to side with caution
Schwartz 2015 (Benjamin [Worked at the Departments of State, Defense
and Energy]; Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism; The
Overlook Press; p. 3-5; kdf)
Yet there are very few authors, academics, or entertainers who have really thought through the scenario
described above or examined in detail the question of what happens in the days, weeks, and months after

the US government's
response to nuclear terrorism is unknowable. Ask anyone who has spent time at
the White House on the National Security Council staff and they will tell you that d ecisions of war
and peace are in no small part the product of fickle factors like the
personality of the president and the people who surround him .
such an attack. Presumably, part of the reason for this is that

Thoughtful national security practitioners also know that happenstance and dumb luck have a prominent

These conditions make

realistic speculation difficult to formulate. The wide range of possible scenarios and
role in shaping discussions in the White House Situation Room.

the salience of unknowable factors make it difficult to anticipate hypothetical policy prescriptions. Another
reason that this question hasn't demanded an answer is that most people understandably consider it to be

Speculating on responses
to a nuclear attack is a bit like contemplating the day after any
number of disasters that involve an unprecedented scale of
devastation. Does the national security community focus on the US government's potential response
far less relevant than "How can nuclear terrorism be prevented?"

to an asteroid striking the planet or the aftermath of a war between China and the United States? It does
not, because these types of scenarios fall into the realm of the surreal or at a minimum envision a situation
in which there is such massive social disruption and such a severe diminution of US government capacity
that it is difficult to even know where to begin. Admitting the limits of American power, particularly the
"hard power" of the US military and intelligence community, is also not a popular pastime. A politician
would need to be unusually brave to publicly focus on the day after an act of nuclear terrorism instead of
the days before. Accepting nuclear terrorism is an unacceptable position, his opponents would surely
retort. There are also no precedents, history, or cases of nuclear terrorism to provide context or demand
consideration.

People -particularly pundits and politicians-who have not studied much

history often use the term unprecedented to describe the unfamiliar,

but the scenario laid out above is truly something new under the
sun. Since a successful nuclear terrorism event has not happened before, and it is not happening now,
there is less appetite for thinking deeply about it than there is for considering more traditional security
issues. From the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat, to the Japanese empire's attack on Pearl

Americans are
conditioned to contemplate surprise attacks and expect that the US
government can respond swiftly and severely, to manifest the prediction made by
Japanese admiral Isoroky Yamamoto that a surprise attack against America would
"awaken a sleeping giant."
Harbor, to al-Qaeda's attacks that culminated in the events of 9/11,